Friday, November 30, 2007

Periodically, especially when some helium-handed moron is trying to sound smart in class and I decide to ignore him, I find it interesting to browse the search terms that people have entered to get to my blog. Here is a random sampling of the latest ones.

I have no idea what a spiritual blacksmith is, but it sounds kind of cool. It kind of reminds me of Joseph Smith's "welding link" image from the letter he wrote to the church in 1842, out of hiding, about baptism for the dead (parts of which are reflected in Doctrine and Covenants 128). But I don't think I've ever blogged about that (until now).

No, that's something that Freemasons ask to identify each other. "Are you a traveling man?" means "are you a Freemason?" It is then sometimes followed up with "have you traveled long?" and "have you traveled far?" to find out how long the brother has been initiated and how far he has progressed through the ranks of freemasonry.